title: Visualizing carbene equilibria.
abstract: Reviewed herein are equilibria between halocarbenes and halocarbanions, carbenes and carbene complexes and carbenes and O-ylides. The transient species were visualized by laser flash photolysis coupled with UV-Visible spectroscopy. This methodology enabled the determination of equilibrium constants and the extraction of associated thermodynamic parameters. Parallel computational studies provided anticipated structures and energies for the transient species, as well as electronic absorption wavelengths and oscillator strengths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Moss
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Pablo A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hoijemberg
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Krogh-Jespersen
mesh_terms: D008697:Methane / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: C030011:carbene; D008697:Methane